The Old Spaghetti Factory, a national chain but a downtown Nashville institution, will not be reopening in the Second Avenue North building from which it operated for 40 years. The building suffered major damage due to the Christmas Day bombing.
Fox 17 Nashville reports landlord LOFTS 160 Nashville LLC will be terminating the lease agreement (though the restaurant reportedly has 16 years remaining on that lease). Bala Cynwyd, Pa.-based Stoltz Real Estate Partners is affiliated with the LLC.
Fox reports the owners of the business, which operated at 160 Second Ave. N. prior to the bombing, offered to spend more than $1 million to rehab the space.
Stoltz has a notable Nashville presence. In September 2018, Stoltz acquired downtown's Public Square Garage for $54 million. Stoltz bought the office component of mixed-use Midtown high-rise Loews Vanderbilt Plaza for $34 million. Stoltz also owns The Sheds on Charlotte in Midtown and downtown’s ServiceSource Tower. The company entered the Nashville market in 2016 by buying downtown’s Stahlman and The Lofts at 160 (home to The Old Spaghetti Factory).
The Old Spaghetti Factory is a family-owned-and-operated restaurant chain founded in Portland, Ore., in 1969, by wife and husband Sally and Guss Dussin. At one time, the Dussins operated 42 locations in multiple states.
